<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 4:17 AM Stuart LaForge <<a href="mailto:avant@sollegro.com">avant@sollegro.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
A study which which dispels any illusion that society is any kind of<br>
meritocracy by showing why wealth in society follows a power-law<br>
distribution (80-20 rule) when every possible measure of human talent (IQ,<br>
hours worked, etc.) follow a normal distribution (bell curve).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It seems to me like they're not taking into account the feedback loop that compounds wealth loss and gain. If you want to achieve $2 billion net worth, your odds of doing that vastly improved if your current net worth is $1 billion versus $1 million or $100k.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>